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{{Short description|British pianist and music teacher (1934–2024)}}
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'''Renna Kellaway''' (18 October 1934 – April 2024), was a British pianist and music teacher, born in [[Durban]], South Africa. At the age of seventeen she travelled to [[Amsterdam]] to study with Johannes Röntgen (1898-1969),<ref>Caroline Benser. ''At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists'' (2012), p. 123</ref> and later with Franz Osborn (a student of [[Artur Schnabel]]) in London. She also played for [[Clara Haskil]].<ref>[https://melaniespanswick.com/2013/07/14/steven-osborne-in-conversation-with-melanie-spanswick/ Steven Osborne in conversation with Melanie Spanswick]</ref> Kellaway toured as a concert pianist and chamber musician in Europe, Asia, the USA and South Africa, giving master classes and serving as a juror in piano competitions. She also participated in and directed the summer music school at [[Dartington International Summer School|Dartington]] for several years.<ref name=talk>Kathleen Ollerenshaw. ''[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edit...dq=Renna+Kellaway&pg=PA96&printsec=frontcover To Talk of Many Things: An Autobiography]'' (2004), p. 96</ref>
Kellaway began teaching at the [[Royal Northern College of Music]] from 1980. She became Head of Music Studies in 1992, founding the Glories of the Keyboard Festival at the College in 1995.<ref>Gerald Larner. 'Touch of poetry', in ''The Times'', 7 November 1995, p. 41</ref> She left the RNCM in 2000, succeeded by [[Martin Roscoe]].<ref>''Musical Times'', Vol. 141, No. 1871 (Summer 2000), p. 4</ref> Her pupils there included Caroline Dowdle, Eleanor Hodgkinson, Heejung Kim, [[Steven Osborne (pianist)|Steven Osborne]], Carole Presland and Edward Rushton.
Kellaway founded the annual [[Lake District Summer Music]] in 1985 and ran it for 35 years as Artistic Director.<ref name=talk/> She was awarded an MBE for services to music in 2009. She retired from the post in 2020 and was succeeded by Stephen Threlfall.<ref>[https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/...l-replace-kellaway-lake-district-summer-music 'Threlfall to replace Kellaway at Lake District Summer Music'], ''Arts Professional'', 21 June 2020</ref>
She married composer and music educator [[John Manduell]] in September 1955 and moved North with him in 1968 when he became director of Music at the [[Lancaster University|University of Lancaster]]. They lived together at [[Bentham, North Yorkshire]], and there were three sons and a daughter. He died in Bentham, aged 89, in October 2017.<ref>[https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/15652254.friends-bid-farewell-to-sir-john-manduell/ 'Friends bid farewell to Sir John Manduell'], in ''The Westmorland Gazette'', 10 November, 2017</ref>
Kellaway died in April 2024, aged 89.<ref>Norman Lebrecht. '[https://slippedisc.com/2024/04/the-pianist-who-lit-up-the-lake-district/ The Pianist who Lit Up the Lake District]', in ''Slipped Disc'', 28 April, 2024</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.cumbriawomenoftheyear.co.uk/winner/renna-kellaway-mbe/ Renna Kellaway MBE - Cumbria Woman of the Year, 2012]
* [ Lake District Summer Music Festival film 2013]
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{{Short description|British pianist and music teacher (1934–2024)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}
'''Renna Kellaway''' (18 October 1934 – April 2024), was a British pianist and music teacher, born in [[Durban]], South Africa. At the age of seventeen she travelled to [[Amsterdam]] to study with Johannes Röntgen (1898-1969),<ref>Caroline Benser. ''At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists'' (2012), p. 123</ref> and later with Franz Osborn (a student of [[Artur Schnabel]]) in London. She also played for [[Clara Haskil]].<ref>[https://melaniespanswick.com/2013/07/14/steven-osborne-in-conversation-with-melanie-spanswick/ Steven Osborne in conversation with Melanie Spanswick]</ref> Kellaway toured as a concert pianist and chamber musician in Europe, Asia, the USA and South Africa, giving master classes and serving as a juror in piano competitions. She also participated in and directed the summer music school at [[Dartington International Summer School|Dartington]] for several years.<ref name=talk>Kathleen Ollerenshaw. ''[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edit...dq=Renna+Kellaway&pg=PA96&printsec=frontcover To Talk of Many Things: An Autobiography]'' (2004), p. 96</ref>
Kellaway began teaching at the [[Royal Northern College of Music]] from 1980. She became Head of Music Studies in 1992, founding the Glories of the Keyboard Festival at the College in 1995.<ref>Gerald Larner. 'Touch of poetry', in ''The Times'', 7 November 1995, p. 41</ref> She left the RNCM in 2000, succeeded by [[Martin Roscoe]].<ref>''Musical Times'', Vol. 141, No. 1871 (Summer 2000), p. 4</ref> Her pupils there included Caroline Dowdle, Eleanor Hodgkinson, Heejung Kim, [[Steven Osborne (pianist)|Steven Osborne]], Carole Presland and Edward Rushton.
Kellaway founded the annual [[Lake District Summer Music]] in 1985 and ran it for 35 years as Artistic Director.<ref name=talk/> She was awarded an MBE for services to music in 2009. She retired from the post in 2020 and was succeeded by Stephen Threlfall.<ref>[https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/...l-replace-kellaway-lake-district-summer-music 'Threlfall to replace Kellaway at Lake District Summer Music'], ''Arts Professional'', 21 June 2020</ref>
She married composer and music educator [[John Manduell]] in September 1955 and moved North with him in 1968 when he became director of Music at the [[Lancaster University|University of Lancaster]]. They lived together at [[Bentham, North Yorkshire]], and there were three sons and a daughter. He died in Bentham, aged 89, in October 2017.<ref>[https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/15652254.friends-bid-farewell-to-sir-john-manduell/ 'Friends bid farewell to Sir John Manduell'], in ''The Westmorland Gazette'', 10 November, 2017</ref>
Kellaway died in April 2024, aged 89.<ref>Norman Lebrecht. '[https://slippedisc.com/2024/04/the-pianist-who-lit-up-the-lake-district/ The Pianist who Lit Up the Lake District]', in ''Slipped Disc'', 28 April, 2024</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [https://www.cumbriawomenoftheyear.co.uk/winner/renna-kellaway-mbe/ Renna Kellaway MBE - Cumbria Woman of the Year, 2012]
* [ Lake District Summer Music Festival film 2013]
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[[Category:20th-century British pianists]]
[[Category:20th-century Women pianists]]
[[Category:21st-century British pianists]]
[[Category:21st-century Women pianists]]
[[Category:British classical pianists]]
[[Category:British women pianists]]
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